Star Trek

I feel obliged to remind you of the saying: 'Less is more'

We are a dying breed. I wacthed TOS with my dad. I watched TNG with my son. My grandson is not into Star trek or even Star Wars.

For a lot of us it all comes down to what we have access to. I saw Star Trek a while back on TV and particularly liked it, and have of course read a lot of other references on it and (with interest) read other people's comments. No doubt my story will be similar to that of other people here:

Having not seen Trek on TV for quite some time, I was most familiar with DS9 because that was the series I bought first on DVD. And after that, Enterprise, and the last few series of TNG. I am still debating whether to get the first few series of TNG (because what I own of those I don't particularly like very much -- at least, not quite enough to justify going out and purchasing the remainder of episodes.) Voyager, I will get when I get around to it. And as for the originals, well -- at the moment there simply aren't any copies for sale in town.

I purchase them slowly for simple pragmatic reasons: Lack of money. And don't have access to internet streaming. No doubt there are others in this "boat", who do like the originals but simply don't own their own copies which they can consult in detail.

I've been asked: Will you ever get around to watching TOS again. Well, yes. It's a simple matter of access and accessibility. And patience.

EDIT:

You might also look at this as a natural consequence of there being more choice. As an earlier poster commented, I believe, there are simply more episodes of other Trek series altogether than there are of TOS. However, I think you'll find that (aside from people watching other series too...) the greatest effect of this is not drawing people away from original Trek, but bringing in fans who would not have otherwise considered checking it out.

Let's not get into generational bias here. I do a ton of work on generational values and motivators as part of my professional work, and believe me, we're all equally weak and shallow in our own little ways.